Medical textbooks describe three types of cartilage: hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage. Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very ...

An awkward fall while running, skiing or playing sports can cause knee injuries that sideline players and increase t ...

Three types of cartilages: hyaline, fibrocartilage and elastic cartilage. Has a rich supply of blood via blood vessels. There are no blood vessels, hence no blood. Made of osteoblasts, osteoclasts ...

Humans' outer ears may have evolved from the gills of prehistoric fish, a new study finds. Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of ...

Engineered cartilage from nasal septum cells is treating complex knee damage, thanks to Swiss researchers who developed the ...

“The scaffold serves as their ‘home base’, anchoring them at the damaged site, where they transform into cartilage-producing cells to restore hyaline-like cartilage that mimics the joint’s ...